Robert Clifton Weaver and the American city :: the life and times of an urban reformer /

"From his role as FDR's "negro advisor" to his appointment, under Lyndon Johnson, as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This volume...

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1. Verfasser: Pritchett, Wendell E.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Zusammenfassung:"From his role as FDR's "negro advisor" to his appointment, under Lyndon Johnson, as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This volume, the first biography of the first African American to hold a cabinet position in the federal government, rescues from obscurity the story of a man whose legacy continues to impact American race relations and the cities in which they largely play out."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 433 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-417) and index.
ISBN:9780226684505
0226684504
1282537911
9781282537910
9786612537912
6612537914

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